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The article presents the research activity of the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científica (CSIC) during the period 2006-2015 in comparison with similar European institutions, i.e. the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (HG), the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG), y the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). Using data from Scopus, production, impact and collaboration were analyzed. Specifically, the following indicators are produced: number of publications and activity index, for the research activity indicators; number of citations per publication, percentage of no cited items, h-index and immediacy index, for the impact indicators; and, finally, frequency of international collaboration and international collaboration index, for the collaboration indicators.